DIARY OF SUCCESS: MONEY: My first financial notebook

Habitual Efforts, Remarkable ResultsDIARY OF SUCCESS: MONEYYour First Financial NotebookAnything and Everything you want will be yoursSuitable for 9-12 years-oldform a money-making mindsetlearn to talk about wealthaction beats thinkingthink on fiction, so you can execute in realityThe topics and questions in this dairy are illustrative and represent only a part of the subject of financial well-being. The diary and the tasks in it are intended to draw children‘s attention to important issues for them to have knowledge and to think independently on. Most of the questions in this guide do not have a ‘right’ answer. They are intended to ‘unlock‘ the child‘s senses to the subjects of wealth and the possible ways in which they may be looked at, so that in the future they develop perceptiveness to the important things which their good standard of living depends on and never have to live in poverty.Included:✓ Needs, wants, money, family budget.✓ How do I know what I want to achieve and what job I’m striving for?✓ Wealth and poverty. Personal values.✓ Exercise: How do I trace my money flow?✓ Why it’s necessary to have good people skills?✓ My own research.Dear parents,Talk with your children about the topics in this diary. Search for the answers to the questions they are excited about together. This will broaden their horizons, help them build critical thinking, have higher self-esteem, know more about the world, be decisive, independent, and confident, as well as take responsibility when making important steps in their lives. Help your children ‘open’ their senses to the subject of wealth so they can begin and have enough time to build the confidence to become successful. So they will be useful to themselves, full-fledged in their family and will even be able to help other people in need or support causes if they decide it is important.It doesn’t matter how good of a standard we have in life. As humans we always want more and our strive for improvement never ends. There’s always the next thing we want to buy that’s out of reach. Sometimes we just want to have more free time for ourselves.Our wealth and lifestyle depend on our thinking and the environment that made us who we are. Our parents unconsciously formed our beliefs when we were kids and some of these beliefs keep playing a role well into our adult lives and we transfer it to our kids when we become parents.We can realize this pattern and if it’s not good enough as parents we can help our kids to change it understanding the importance of:taking own decisions and actionsasking professionals for advice when neededkeeping healthy relationships with peopleHelp your kids find the answers to things early on so they don’t grow into adults without the needed beliefs and habits that will let them find success in any job or hobby they like. Your kid will:start seeing the truth about the value of moneydifferentiate between needs and desiresunderstand how money flowsknow how to achieve own financial goalsTHIS DIARYIs developed by Ralitsa Zgalevska, philologist, editor with journalistic experience, project coordinator; participant in numerous training programs in various fields of communication, psychology, health, financial literacy; strategic planning; interactive methods for individual and group work with young people; prevention campaigns and causes; networking; international environment and parenting experience. Read more